Author: Justin Sherrill

Whee!

• Mesopotamia, a nice online version of a museum exhibit.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games bonus article: Amnesia.
• MNT Pocket Reform, the smaller version of something I’ve linked before.
• The least friendly keyboard ever, but certainly interesting.
• The Internet as a Public Good.
• GitHub Copilot and open source laundering.  This applies to AI art too.
• A mystery with Fedora 36, fontconfig, and xterm (and urxvt).  Linked cause I wondered out loud “why that change, in version 36?”
• Dangit, Git!?   (via)
• A strategy to defeat AI chessbots.
• The Dwarf Fortress Development Plan.  Some of this sounds more like writing an epic novel than a game, which is good!   They have a dirt-simple Patreon, too, and graphics are on the way?  All news to me.
• Plan 9 was almost a music disk, too.  (via)

Your unrelated cartoon of the week: Mega.

Mini-theme of old games.

• The Nethack Challenge: Dungeons, Dragons, and Tourists.  (via)
• I’ve played dopewars on Slack.  Linked because dopewars is really a variant of unique-genre game Taipan.
• Clarus returns home.  (via)
• 3 More Fonts for Working with Plain Text.  I find Source Code Pro works very well.
• I posted about arttime before; the author helpfully reminded me version 1.5 is out.
• Rebecca, Michael recommend the Gateron Black Ink V2 keyswitches.
• David Ahl places all his classic computing publications into the Public Domain.  I loved those books.  (via)
• Toonstruck (or, A Case Study in the Death of Adventure Games).
• Dial-a-story.
• CaptionIt, live subtitles on a heads-up display, open source.  (via)
• Dinosaur Pictures and Facts.  My favorite dinosaur.  (also via)
• Game Design Mimetics.  (also via)

This is a week of fun links.

• Cyberdeck Cafe.   All custom terminals.
• My PSU just won’t do.
• So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router.  A good T-carrier explanation.
• Intro to the Web Revival #1: What is the Web Revival?  (via)
• A Web Around the World, Part 11: A Zero-Sum Game.
• Interactive Art Museum.  Pleasing webgubbins.  (via)
• A Trail Tale.  A very nice presentation of an Appalachian Trail hike; something I’d like to do someday.  (also via)
• Porting Doom to A/UX.  (via)
• Artvee, public domain art search engine.  (via)
• Fun With Power Monitoring on the Apple IIe.
• Installing a payphone in my house.  The last paragraph is the best.  (via)
• Regular expressions are effectively a (hard) programming language.
• How is Voyager still talking after all these years?
• Frogress Bar.

Mini-theme of hardware this week.

• Electronic Catan LCD Tiles.  (via)
• Watchy, open hardware and software watch.
• Modal dialogs and other things that steal keyboard focus are dangerous.  That makes me so mad.
• DuskOS.  Linking cause “low impact computing” has turned into “postapocalyptic computing” for some people.  (via)
• Catalogs and Context.  (via)
• What happened to Perl 7?  (via)
• Related: perl v5.36.0 has been released.  (via)
• Access the Tesla API with Perl!
• BBQ20KBD.  (via)
• Ono-Sendai Cyberspace 7 MK3.  (via)
• 50 Years of Text Games crowdfunded book launch teaser.
• XModem in 2022.  (via)
• The Thompson MO5, I’ve never seen before.  Plus free BASIC.  (via)